Kosovo wants the final agreement to include Belgrade`s recognition of Kosovo, but Serbian officials say recognition is not an option. After a meeting of Kosovo`s parliamentary leaders on Tuesday, Parliament spokesman Vjosa Osmani said that the creation of such an association “with executive powers poses a risk to Kosovo” and said that the parties that signed the agreement on the creation of Kosovo in 2013 “understood this on the way” with people like you who “have been opposed to it from the beginning”. As part of the agreements, Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to join the schengen mini-zone. [11] “I welcome the signing of the s/w #Kosovo-#Serbia agreement today in Washington,” Thaci wrote on Twitter. “Kosovo will continue to work on economic development, employment and other internal and int`l remediation.” In an interview with Kosovo`s KTV television channel on Tuesday, Albin Kurti, a former prime minister and now chairman of the main opposition vetevendosje party, called the Washington deal a “messy agreement” and said he had written far too much about “one and a half pages.” “The agreement is still not legally binding, which is why nullity in the formal legal sense is not a problem either. In essence, politically, I do not believe that the spirit of the agreement is being cancelled, and that means economic cooperation and economic rapprochement between Belgrade and Pristina. And that will be something that the Biden administration would use and insist on. After all, economic integration was not invented by Trump,” Krstié said. I think it is a kind of declaration of will or political commitment to this government, not the next. We`ll see if Biden insists on the Agreement sponsored by Grenell. But there are points that will be interesting for him or for “his people,” Savkovic said, adding that it was unclear how to implement this, and he thinks we should wait for this. The agreements also contain provisions in which Serbia and Kosovo refer to Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and support the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide.
[11] The assistant professor at Belgrade`s Faculty of Political Science, Milan Krstia, said that Belgrade and Pristina had not signed a bilateral agreement with the United States, as stated by Serbian government officials, or together, as suggested by Richard Grenell. After the EU initially took a reluctant stance on the AGREEMENTs negotiated by the US, Ana Pisonero, the EU`s spokesperson for international partnerships, neighbourhoods and enlargement, told Radio Free Europe on Wednesday that the EU was already pursuing key points in the Washington agreement. The International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) [1] in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses developments in the Middle East and the Balkans. IFIMES analysed the separate agreements signed by Serbia and Kosovo with the United States on “economic normalization” and its implications. We provide the most interesting excerpts from a comprehensive analysis entitled “Agreement between the United States and Serbia 2020: a new era of political and economic relations between Serbia and the United States.” On the other hand, Krstié said that even if Trump does not win the election, the spirit of the agreement will be preserved.